apr 5
nick's week
started working with GEM this week...found a tutorial written by the person who currently maintains GEM and it is a good introduction!
second time messing with GEM, created a patch that renders a sphere and rotates it while changing the diameter.
lysha's week
- I thought that I had GEM already installed, turns out I actually had GIMP, which is a blender thing...thus I spent a good bit of time trying to figure out how to install GEM on my macbook. I needed to enlist Logan's help with it, as it was pretty complicated, and in the end it turns out that it only works with Pd 32 bit version, so I had to install that. Eventually got it working well though.
- I must say I like that Nick seems to begin the work before me, so it is nice to have the added resources to look into...that was indeed a nice written tutorial on GEM as an introduction.
- I mostly worked off a Dr. Rafeal Hernandez tutorial on youtube: "PURE DATA: 27"
- I created one large-ish patch, that has a few elements:
- A rotating cube, synced to a metronome
- A wav file (attached) of music, to which the rotating cube is (roughly) synced
- A video file (attached) that (after you select it from "openpanel") also syncs...although I am having issues here as my computer can't seem to handle the multiple medias all running at once
A (not) lovely update
- After putting files into their appropriate subfolders, and then testing things for presenting tomorrow, now all my GEM objects have vanished...I'm not sure what I did...hoping to get some clarity tomorrow about proper install, and where I went wrong...frustrating